Archive for February, 2008

Jotspot now Google Sites

Jotspot has been re-launch now sitting on Google sites.
Google Sites is the latest offering from Google Apps, a suite of
products designed to improve communication and collaboration
amongst employees, students, and groups. Google Sites makes
creating a team web site as easy as editing a document. You can
quickly gather a variety of information in one place — […]

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Enhance Functionality-WebCall from Grandcentral

Would you like your client call you through your blog? An enhancement though in private beta stage GrandCentral through blogger buzz made another addition to its features by having a webcall feature that can be added to your blog and visitors can call you right at your site.
With GrandCentral, a free service from Google, you […]

Monday, February 25th, 2008

MSN Search indexing Google Translated site

My normal work to check the site I am working with was to check if the site was indexed on different search engine. And one caught my attention to see that it is well rank on google and yahoo but no where to see on MSN on showing sites mentioning it. Have the necessary files, […]

Sunday, February 24th, 2008

Blogger in Filipino Language

Blogger now have a Filipino version of its freely hosted blogs. I know this is just a local news for us Filipinos but it is good to see that blogger is expanding to reach common language to popularize and engage in reaching individual to use the service on it’s own language.
According to the Buzz Blog,
There […]

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Live Search Crawler Improvement

Live Search Team now improving its engine by improving its live search bot from crawling site pages. They are focusing on helping webmasters to do and improve site indexing on Live Search. Live Search as regards to traffic I have on this site yields second to Google.
According to their site blog. Here the improvements they […]

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Yahoo plans to decline Microsoft offer

Yahoo plans to reject Microsoft bid of 44.6 billion dollars that is amounting to $31 per share according to Yahoo Finance press release.
In a bid to remain independent, Yahoo plans to reject Microsoft Corp.’s unsolicited takeover offer.Quoting sources familiar with the situation, the Journal reports that Yahoo’s board feels the offer of $31 per share […]

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Forcing publishers to shift to Google Account

As I regularly check my adsense account, today when I’m about to log-in they have prompt me to update my log-in information to use or associate my gmail account to be used for adsense log-in as well.

They are about to migrate all google accounts to use the same account on all services powered by Google […]

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

Paypal Philippines successful Bank Withdrawal

The time I heard about this new feature on Paypal Philippines to add or withdraw to a local bank account, I immediately check and add my bank account and tried to withdraw the funds sitting on my paypal account. All I need was my bank account information including bank code that was posted by paypal […]

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

Wordpress 2.3.3 Security release

Wordpress 2.3.3 security release is out to public addressing issues and minor fixes. A vulnerability that will allow users to edit post of any other users of a wordpress blog. According to Wordpress Development Blog.
A flaw was found in our XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow any valid user to edit […]

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Will Microsoft go for $50 Billion?

With the recent news for Search industry about the proposal of Microsoft to buy Yahoo, and the immediate meeting of Yahoo executive to discuss the unsolicited letter from Microsoft, I wonder how it will go far with this news. Microsoft already proposes $44.6 Billion on the letter dated January 31, 2008.
The offer might increase up […]

Saturday, February 2nd, 2008